BIG DATA ENGINEER

What you’ll do The Big Data Engineer plays a key role in Digital Engineering team by supporting the strategy and deliverables related to Cloud Platform (GCP) and Data Engineering.
The Big Data engineer is a core member of the agile teams delivering data pipelines and capabilities within the organization through building and automating data flows, and provides specialised guidance and delivers through self and others to.
Design, Develop and Integrate ETL/ELT data pipelines for the necessary data from several sources for analysis and for Technology actions; Build applications and products that make use of large volumes of data and generate outputs that allow actions that generate incremental value; Deliver and implement core capabilities (frameworks, platform, development infrastructure, documentation, guidelines and support) to speed up delivery in the Big Data Programme, assuring quality, performance and alignment to the technology blueprint and patterns; Support stakeholders and functions in obtaining benefiting business value from the operational data; Designing and producing high performing stable end-to-end data applications to perform cost efficient and complex processing of batch and streaming massive volumes of data in a multi-tenancy big data platform in the cloud; Ingest and automation the necessary data from local and group sources onto GCP platform; Accountable to ensure delivery of solution & use case enablement, GCP project & resource enablement, data source ingestion for Networks sources, application production rollouts and code/execution optimisation for big data solutions; Working with key stakeholders such as the Group Big Data/Neuron team, ADS, ACoE, local market IT and Big Data teams to define the strategy for evolving the Big Data capability, including solution architectural decisions aligned with the platform architecture; Investigating and driving new technologies adoption to identify where they can bring benefits; Ensuring common data architecture, structure and definition, data cleanings and data integrity; Support data security & privacy, and thorough documentation processes.
Who you are Degree in Computer Science or related field 3 years of hands on Big Data Engineering experience, ideally over a Cloud computing environment 3 years of experience in working with Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive/Impala, HBase, etc.
Google Cloud Professional certification Proven hands experience on Cloud computing, preferable Google Cloud Platform (particular focus on GCS, Big Query, & various GCP database solutions Composer, Dataflow, Data Fusion, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Dataproc, Data Catalogue, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Build, Cloud Run) is mandatory Knowledge of other cloud providers such as AWS or Azure is desirable Hands on expertise on Apache Nifi, Apache Kafka, CDAP, Apache Airflow is mandatory Hands on expertise developing and optimising Apache Spark.
Skilled python development background, SQL and bash scripting mandatory.
Additional development languages desired, e.
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Scala, Java Hands on experience in implementing large-scale batch and streaming based Big Data solutions Deep understanding of big data eco systems and tools like Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, NiFi, Kafka, various data formats, etc Background in telecommunication networks and its related data sources, its strengths, weaknesses, semantics, and formats is desirable Portuguese/English language proficiency.
Not a perfect fit? Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background.
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What's in it for you We want you to feel happy and fulfilled at work, without compromising the other things in life that matter to you.
There are lots of ways we support this, including hybrid working and generous parental leave.
You'll also get four Spirit Days a year to focus on your personal development and wellbeing, plus a host of other great benefits too.
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